Amazon Lifts Quantity Limits for Suppliers, but 1-Day and 2-Day Delivery Times Still Lag
Amazon removed quantity limits suppliers can send to its fulfillment centers, put in place to focus on essential goods for the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson emailed Wednesday. The company is adhering to “extensive health and safety measures” to protect fulfillment…
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center workers and is “improving delivery speeds across our store,” he said. Prime 1- and 2-Day shipping remains elusive, we found. Responding to our question on when those services would resume, the spokesperson said many items are available for 1- and 2-Day Prime shipping. Our Wednesday search for a power bank brought up Saturday and Sunday as the earliest delivery days for all units. An Anker PowerCore 20100mAh charger showed a Saturday delivery date with a “details” button next to it. The disclaimer said Amazon offers guaranteed delivery on certain products and that if a delivery attempt isn't made by that date, it will refund shipping fees. An additional note said delivery capability reflects "the moment the page was opened” and that the delivery date “may become unavailable within that time frame, prior to completing your order, due to changes in inventory or delivery capacity.” In the time it took us to type out the disclaimer, the date changed to Sunday when we placed it in our shopping cart, making it four-day shipping. The Anker website showed a similar product with three-to-five day free shipping. Only one Echo speaker at Amazon showed 1-Day free Prime delivery; others were Sunday and Monday. When we put the Echo in our shopping cart, the delivery date defaulted to one week out; we had an option to change it to Thursday.